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Chapter 1708: Chapter 900: Decision (Part 2)

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect held power over everything on Dongqi Continent, but on the Central State Continent and the other continents, their intelligence was much poorer.

As for the matter of Li Yuanba, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect still hadn’t received any information.

This left Grandmaster Hu unable to make a judgment; he stared at the two dossiers in his hand, lost in thought.

"No matter what, we’ll exterminate the Sun Concealing Sect first!" After a moment, a fierce light flashed in his eyes and he spoke in a deep voice.

Between Lianhua Temple and the Sun Concealing Sect, in terms of threat, the Sun Concealing Sect was still the greater.

The Sun Concealing Sect was a Demon Sect; their methods were far more ruthless.

Lianhua Temple was a Buddhist Sect; even if the Venerables of Lianhua Temple made any move, their special identities would be immediately noticed.

Moreover, through this recent action by Lianhua Temple and the Sun Concealing Sect, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect had found a pretext it could use to move against the Sun Concealing Sect.

Having made his decision, he left his own cave abode and arrived outside Li Shiming’s cave abode.

He cast a Sound Transmission Technique toward the interior of the cave, then waited.

After a short while, the Formation of the cave abode activated and the entrance opened.

Grandmaster Hu stepped into the cave abode; the main hall was filled with a gloomy chill, and here a Corpse Refining Array had been set up.

Two Late-stage Golden Corpses were standing within the Corpse Refining Array; this method was equivalent to the cultivation of Late-stage Golden Corpses, only the cultivation effect was extremely weak.

"Master, do you need something?" The remaining Late-stage Golden Corpse bowed slightly to Grandmaster Hu and asked.

This was the source of Grandmaster Hu’s confidence. The outside world all believed that Li Shiming had fled the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, and Li Shiming’s "phantom avatar" was still in Luanyang Palace on the Central State Continent.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect had thus lost contact with Li Shiming, and could no longer borrow Li Shiming’s mighty power.

But in truth, Li Shiming had always been able to grasp the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s information through the two Late-stage Golden Corpses, and communicate with Grandmaster Hu.

Grandmaster Hu had told this to no one; he still had some ambitions of his own—namely, to let the Ten Thousand Beast Sect occupy the whole Dongqi Continent.

Previously, both Lianhua Temple and the Sun Concealing Sect had the shadow of superpowers behind them. When Lianhua Temple and the Sun Concealing Sect voluntarily surrendered, it made it impossible for the Ten Thousand Beast Sect to completely eradicate them.

But this time, with Lianhua Temple and the Sun Concealing Sect deliberately stirring up trouble, Grandmaster Hu had a chance to realize his wish.

"Shizhen, I want to borrow the power of the Late-stage Golden Corpses to wipe out the Sun Concealing Sect!" Grandmaster Hu stated his intention in a deep voice.

"If Master feels it’s necessary, then make a move." Li Shiming had no particular thoughts about exterminating the Sun Concealing Sect; he seldom concerned himself with Ten Thousand Beast Sect affairs, and since his master Grandmaster Hu deemed it necessary, that was enough.

"How is your current situation? Is there any danger?" Grandmaster Hu hesitated slightly but still asked with concern.

He rarely came to disturb the two Late-stage Golden Corpses, precisely because he feared affecting Li Shiming.

He knew Li Shiming was in some unfamiliar place, but since Li Shiming hadn’t revealed more details, it only made him worry even more.

"I’m in seclusion, attempting to break through to the Peak Great Cultivator Realm. Once I leave seclusion, I can return." Li Shiming replied.

Grandmaster Hu’s eyelids twitched; this was an answer he had never expected.

He felt his own heart pounding wildly, as if a certain possibility was suddenly very, very close to him.

Before, he had only hoped that Li Shiming could advance to the Grand Ascension level; he also understood that even if that hope existed, his own Life Span likely wouldn’t last until that time.

But now that Li Shiming was already in seclusion,冲击ing the Peak Great Cultivator Realm, perhaps within his lifetime, he might still live to see Li Shiming advance to Grand Ascension.

When that time came, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect would rise together with Li Shiming, becoming a new superpower in the Cultivation World.

This was the dream of every generation of Ten Thousand Beast Sect cultivators; all the cultivators’ efforts were to inch closer to this dream step by step.

"Why don’t you just focus on your seclusion and cultivation; leaving the Sun Concealing Sect alone doesn’t matter!" Grandmaster Hu suddenly felt that the existence or non-existence of the Sun Concealing Sect was unimportant; Li Shiming’s cultivation was the truly vital matter.

"It’s fine. Resolving the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s troubles will be helpful to my state of mind in seclusion." Li Shiming said with a smile.

"If it helps, then we’ll annihilate the Sun Concealing Sect!" In an instant, Grandmaster Hu changed his mind again, raising his voice.

The Sun Concealing Sect, a ten-thousand-year-old great sect, though already in decline, still maintained the imposing air of a major sect at its mountain gate.

Two Late-stage Golden Corpses, clad in armor and wielding heavy hammers, were standing a thousand li away from the Sun Concealing Sect. Behind them followed a large Flying Boat.

On the large Flying Boat, Grandmaster Hu and Master Ding sat in command; the rest were several dozen Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators, and as many as a thousand Golden Core cultivators.

"We really don’t need to act?" Master Ding looked at the two Late-stage Golden Corpses, doubt flashing in his eyes as he asked.

He knew Li Shiming’s Late-stage Golden Corpses were extremely powerful, but without their master personally controlling them, it was hard to say how much of their combat power they could truly unleash.

"Our task is just to take over the Sun Concealing Sect’s mountain gate!" Grandmaster Hu answered with confidence.

Then he deliberately amplified his voice, wrapping his Divine Sense around the entire large Flying Boat so that every cultivator aboard could hear him.

"Everyone, your task is to ensure the smooth handover of the Sun Concealing Sect’s mountain gate, wealth, spirit fields, Spirit Plants, spirit veins, spirit mountains, and so on. A large number of you already have experience in taking over the Taichu Sect, so I believe you can execute this mission properly!" His voice was full of persuasion.

In truth, there was no need to persuade; when they heard they were here to take over the Sun Concealing Sect’s mountain gate, every Ten Thousand Beast Sect cultivator’s eyes already burned with fanaticism.

The conflict between the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and the Sun Concealing Sect had always existed, and had persisted for tens of millions of years.

Some among these cultivators had also heard of how the Sun Concealing Sect had recently vied with the Ten Thousand Beast Sect for benefits. Due to Li Shiming’s disappearance, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect had been enduring in silence, but now they were finally making a move—and their first move was a major one.

The two Late-stage Golden Corpses moved. They charged together toward the Grotto Heaven barrier ahead.

The Grotto Heaven barrier covered the entire area within a radius of a thousand li around the Sun Concealing Sect. Without a Sun Concealing Sect Identity Jade Disc, or the Sun Concealing Sect’s consent, it was impossible to enter the Grotto Heaven barrier.

This was also the first line of defense. Although it couldn’t block the attacks of powerful cultivators, it prevented powerful cultivators from sneaking straight up to the mountain gate, buying the mountain gate enough time to activate its strongest defenses.

The two Late-stage Golden Corpses merely gave their heavy hammers a light swing, and the Grotto Heaven barrier was shattered; their speed was scarcely affected.

Grandmaster Hu watched the figures of the two Late-stage Golden Corpses blur into phantom shadows and vanish from sight, and his face showed excitement—battle had begun.

He steered the large Flying Boat, pursuing in the direction of the two Late-stage Golden Corpses.

He wasn’t worried about his side coming under attack; he believed that under the combat power of the two Late-stage Golden Corpses, the Sun Concealing Sect would have no strength left to attack them at all.

The two Late-stage Golden Corpses were controlled separately by Li Shiming’s two brains. In fact, against a sect at the level of the Sun Concealing Sect, even the Golden Corpses’ own Wisdom would be enough to wipe it out.

But considering the integrity of the Sun Concealing Sect’s mountain gate—after all, all the resources here belonged to Dongqi Continent and to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect—Li Shiming personally controlled the two Late-stage Golden Corpses.

The Sun Concealing Sect might once have been considered a powerful sect among large factions, but ever since they had been forced by the Ten Thousand Beast Sect to cede a large amount of territory, their own strength had declined to the lower-middle tier among large factions.

Back in the day, when Li Shiming was at Nascent Soul Middle Stage, he could already annihilate a large sect—let alone now, with two Late-stage Golden Corpses.

A shrill alarm sounded within the Sun Concealing Sect; the Sect Protection Array automatically activated, channeling Spiritual Energy from the various spirit veins into the grand array.

When the cultivators heard this alarm, it reminded them of the previous alarm—when two Peak Great Cultivators had nearly destroyed the Sun Concealing Sect’s mountain gate.

They hadn’t expected that in so short a time, the Sun Concealing Sect would once again encounter the same kind of attack.

Five Great Cultivators rose into the air from various locations; they each linked to the Sect Protection Array, trying to find out what had happened.

There were five Great Cultivators only because the Sun Concealing Sect had recalled its Great Cultivators who were outside, as well as those who had been in long-term seclusion.